Help with select

Stan Friesen sarima at gryphon.CTS.COM
Mon Mar 28 10:11:47 AEST 1988


In article <7513 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>
>Yes, it's called poll() and it only works on STREAMS.  AT&T is however
>converting the whole character I/O system over to STREAMS and may have
>already done so by now.
>
>There is also a SIGPOLL signal available.

	Good, its about time. But... are PIPEs being converted to STREAMS?
If not, then poll() is not fully equivalent to select().



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